Emerging or less common infections - cytomegalovirus (CMV)
Description
- CMV is a ubiquitous herpesvirus causing mild/asymptomatic primary infection in immunocompetent hosts, but establishing lifelong latency with significant reactivation disease risk in the immunocompromised (transplant recipients, advanced HIV) and congenital infection risk if primary maternal infection occurs during pregnancy
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